Critics should stick to their convictions.

No band on 21st-century radio has mined pre-grunge hair-metal's sleaze like L.A.'s Buckcherry. So it makes poetic sense that they'd spend their sixth album tallying all seven deadly sins.

Ever wonder why people are so determined to reach for white picket fences, supposed normalcy, a nuclear family? Well, try growing up without one.

I'm that grumpy old guy yelling at all those pesky little Grizzly Bear fans to get offa my lawn.

Few bands in hard rock history have been so adept at balancing the awesome and trivial as Van Halen in their prime.

AC/DC has lived the dumbness that the Ramones have only faked all these years.

Mayer Hawthorne's old school pop-R&B homages are so meticulous that it's tempting to overrate his pipes.

If I am thinking the same as everyone why bother pushing to get it published?

Gary Allan has long been one of country's most reliably velvet-voiced beautiful losers.

By the late '80s, I was already giving up on rap music.

I like critics with strong opinions.

Do something purposeful and wise so that when God sent his blessings, they will fall on it.

Remember darlings when your enemies are great God is greater.

Freedom is not reserved for those unwilling to fight for it.

To me, the body says what words cannot. I believe that dance was the first art.

The world I live in is loathsome to me, but I feel one with the men who suffer in it

I'm still learning, but I can see there are decisions in life that are going to be very challenging and it's always better to get through them, always.

Text first, rhythm second, melody third.

Hillary Clinton used the State Department to enrich their family at America's expense.

I just want to grow spiritually with the Lord.

I've noticed a funny thing about people who are over-weight. They spend all their time thinking about food -except when they're actually eating it